MTLE+Extension

one one-year extension to pass the MTLE Pedagogy & Content tests
On Wednesday, May 22, 2013, Governor Dayton signed the 2013-14 Education Omnibus

Here's the text of the bill as it was published by the MN Legislature’s Conference Committee recommendation for the 2013-14 Minnesota Omnibus Education Bill.

Among many other things, the Bill authorizes two one-year extensions to the Basic Skills Test requirement for teacher candidates (including teacher-candidates for whom English is a Second Language). It’s on page 88 of the linked PDF:


 * ===The language of the Omnibus Education Act===

to pass the MTLE Basic Skills tests
||< 88.21 Sec. 10. Minnesota Statutes 2012, section 122A.09, subdivision 4, is amended to read: 88.22 Subd. 4. License and rules. (a) The board must adopt rules to license public school 88.23 teachers and interns subject to chapter 14. 88.24 (b) The board must adopt rules requiring a person to pass a skills examination in 88.25 reading, writing, and mathematics as a requirement for initial teacher licensure, except 88.26 that the board may issue up to two additional temporary, one-year teaching licenses to an 88.27 otherwise qualified candidate who has not yet passed the skills exam. Such rules must 88.28 require college and universities offering a board-approved teacher preparation program to 88.29 provide remedial assistance to persons who did not achieve a qualifying score on the skills 88.30 examination, including those for whom English is a second language. ||

What does this mean?

(2) I talked to MDE Licensing yesterday and they said they'd start taking requests for provisional one-year licenses next week. (3) Because there will be a flood of requests, candidates should contact MDE as soon as possible. (4) If teachers received the extension under the old Praxis rules, they may have exhausted their extensions. (5) Anyone with questions should contact John (john.wolfe@mpls.k12.mn.us)
 * (1) The board “may issue up to two … one-year licenses.”** I think that this will be read as calling on the board to issue the licenses. Clearly, authorizing the Board is the State Legislature’s way of signaling what they think should be done.